PCI-Express with win98sp2.1a

[georgethetee]

Hi! Is this possible? I need to upgrade graphics card so want to move to PCI-E at same time. Most sellers say the PCIE cards are for XP only, but I understand this is microsoft dirty dealing with WHQL - right? But does win98 work with PCIE? I tried to search forum for this but no luck so sorry if this is an old issue.

Any help at all much appreciated

[jbm]

I think that would depend on the manufacturer of the particular card.

If they supply a driver for win98 then it will work other wise not.

WHQL won't have anything to do with wether it works in win98 or not.

[Petr]

Hi! Is this possible? I need to upgrade graphics card so want to move to PCI-E at same time. Most sellers say the PCIE cards are for XP only, but I understand this is microsoft dirty dealing with WHQL - right? But does win98 work with PCIE? I tried to search forum for this but no luck so sorry if this is an old issue.

Any help at all much appreciated

There were several topics about this:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=63394

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=63727

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=65914

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=66858

Here you can see Nvidia 6200 in GA-8I955X Pro board:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&sho...ndpost&p=454412

In general:

There is an official Windows 98 driver for ATI PCI-E boards

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default...ge&folderID=297

I have tried X300 and X550 PCI-E boards with no problem.

Nvidia oficially does not support PCI-E boards but if you select the appropriate board manually, it works. I have tried GeForce 6200, 6200 Turbo Cache and 6600. The only problem I had was with board with 915GM chipset, but in 955X chipset they worked fine. You just have to find the board supported by http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_81.98.html driver.

The best would be to try it.

Petr